John Torrance artfully captures all of the best qualities of prayer in this collection of his public prayers. The prayers were first offered in the context of worship services at Yorkminster Park Baptist Church, Toronto, Ontario, Canada and they reflect the human situation of real people in that context. Voicing a public prayer in the context of leading worship is a special act. It requires some understanding of the congregation and its context. There is an underlying theological framework that informs the prayer. The leader must have a personal faith for the prayer to have authenticity. Articulate and meaningful words lift hearts and minds as the prayer is spoken. It is our of the richness of his faith and life experience that John Torrance is able to so effectively focus prayers that resonate in the hearts of all who hear or read them. Open your own heart and mind to let these prayers take root in your soul and strengthen your faith.

A Year In Prayer

Religion & Spirituality

Torrance, John R.

Christian Books & Bibles

Tall Pine Press

Bellous shares 40 meditations that focus on loss and recovery. The meditations focus on psalms that are biblical cries of the heart.

For Crying Out Loud

Bellous, Joyce E.

Many people move to Canada because they must. This book tells the stories of refugees who flee their country and find welcome in one of five Matthew Houses in Ontario and Quebec. Over the last 20 years the Matthew House Movement has grown from the vision of one woman who responded to Jesus' call to serve the needs of strangers in our midst. It's a compelling book that tells how individuals, churches and organizations work together to create holistic, sustainable ministries with those who are compelled to make a new home in North America.

The Above Ground Railroad

History

Clifton, Joey

Americas

In Educating Faith, Dr. Joyce Bellous offers an approach to spiritual formation that is based on the lifelong process of learning to be people of faith. There are two parts. The first is spiritual education that everyone needs whether or not they are religious. The second promotes maturity based on a spiritual foundation. The book describes an education that encourages people to make authentic connections with scripture, Christian culture and tradition, so that they think critically, at the same time that they learn to know God.

Educating Faith: An Approach to Christian Formation

Parenting & Relationships

Reference

Learning Social Literacy offers a perspective on making human connections more stable and satisfying and claims that the exchange depends on learning how to read and interpret what's going on during social interaction. Social literacy is the ability and willingness to read what's going on during our encounters with others so that we remain true to ourselves (authentic) and yet remain well connected to other people.

Learning Social Literacy

Self-Help

Clinton, Jean M

Relationships

The book provides models for theological reflection that include personal and collaborative approaches. It begins by asserting that theological reflection is a conversation that can become dialogical under certain conditions. The notion of dialogue is based on South American educational theorist Paulo Freire's work.Theological reflection is a conversation among participants including God, others and oneself. As the theological models are presented and developed, the impetus of the book is respect for well-known pillars of Christian theological inquiry that include Scripture, Tradition, Reason and Experience.All four of these aspects of inquiry are used and developed as a means for helping people think theologically. The book includes the use of specific Scriptures as the basis for educational theories presented. In terms of its reliance on Tradition, the practice of Lectio Divina is explained and developed. The book distinguishes healthy from unhealthy reason and outlines the trajectory of reason during the twentieth century that tended to undermine confidence in the role of faith in Christian experience. It also picks out an error made by secular theorists that's at the root of modern assault on the reasonableness of faith.Throughout, the book helps the reader apply personal experience to the practice of theological reflection. In addition, Conversations offers a framework and method for working across cultures to help the reader recognize how Scriptures need to be interpreted in different cultural settings. This culturally-based model and case study invites a reader to reassess taken-for-granted assumptions that populate ordinary experience but that are no longer reliable as one encounters Otherness presented by those who don't share individual, social, family or country of origin experience.In addition, the book introduces a model for collaborative theological reflection that captures the essence what's necessary when people who differ from one another begin to work together as they think theologically and as they actually create dialogical, collaborative reflection based on Scripture, Tradition, Reason and Experience.

Conversations That Change Us - 2nd Edition: Learning the Arts of Theological Reflection

Sheffield, Dan

Love Builds Brains, lays out the early years' journey of attachment, self-regulation, connection, resilience and well-being, with scientific explanations that are measured out in understandable doses. We hear the author's voice throughout the chapters as she tells clinical and personal stories to amplify her points and perspective. She speaks from a population perspective, berating the poor world rankings of Canada on various OECD reports and then speaks to the individual level of our involvement with children suggesting prevention and management strategies. In the book, there's a strong and appropriate emphasis on early years' development, but there's also attention to the adolescent brain. This book is full of scientifically-based wisdom in a conversational style. The book addresses and offers approaches to understand and respond to issues of anxiety, stress, behavour, attachment, resilience and recovery. As a child psychatrist, Dr. Clinton provides ample brain research information to undergird her suggestions for parents, teachers and others who work with children. The final chapter on our digital world points to some ways to manage how children use media time. Dr. Clinton works very hard to advocate for children and youth and to translate the sciences that have uncovered more about the workings of the brain and mind. She sees her role as a Knowledge Translator, bringing insights to groups of people by making research and knowledge accessible.

Love Builds Brains

Clinton, Jean

Parenting

Parry Stelter gives us a book that offers a deeper, better grasp of an Indigenous worldview that embraces Jesus Christ. Few of us understand the complicated culture, history and faith journey of First Nations peoples. Parry relies on his personal experience to explain and explore his complete confidence in the love of God and the application of God’s grace to Indigenous lives.

Indigenous People and Jesus: Making the Bible Come Alive

Stelter, Parry

Spiritual Styles Assessment - Adult

Bellous, Dr. Joyce E.

Spiritual

Clark and Bellous provide a theoretical landscape for spiritual care practitioners. The book includes perspectives on human spirituality, worldview development, the concept of faith and an approach to encountering otherness that allows practitioners to come alongside people through the complex competency of thick listening at thin moments. Coming alongside is possible due to embodied social engagement that every person can rely on for connecting well with others. Throughout the book, they urge readers to reflect intentionally and mindfully on personal and social implications of caring for the human spirit.\nWhile the book focuses on theory, it is rich with scenarios that demonstrate ideas conveyed in each chapter. Its theoretical groundwork is balanced by comprehensive descriptions of clinical implications for spiritual care practice based on theories presented throughout its pages. It will be a welcome manual for chaplains, pastors and spiritual caregivers in any context.

Thick Listening at Thin Moments: Theoretical Groundwork in Spiritual Care Practice

Clark, Dr. Margaret B.

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